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03 Aug 2015 10:17:08am

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Pedro, I think you may have missed the point of Public Holidays. It is true there are a number of religous holidays on the calendar and atheists will no doubt take these as holidays. The issue is not so much about if they should be able to take a holiday they don't believe in, but how that holiday came about in the first instance. When the holidays were being implemented, do you think any thought was given to the opinions of atheists? On the same subject how many "Christians" do you think observe the religous holidays as they are supposed to?I do however agree with you about people imposing their views on others.